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  • Help Frequent Fliers -- and the Poor, Too

    You may have noticed that those weeks of tedious Washington debate about “sequestration” are finally having an effect: The Federal Aviation Administration is furloughing its air-traffic controllers, causing delays at some of the nation’s busiest airports.

  • Simpson-Bowles Prod Congress Again to Anti-Deficit Fervor

    Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the deficit-reduction duo, are trying to rekindle congressional interest in a $2.5 trillion package of spending cuts and tax increases with new details showing how it could work.

  • Greenspan Says Painless Solution to U.S. Debt is Fantasy

    A U.S. budget agreement that includes debt reduction needs to be reached to revive economic growth, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said.

  • Simpson-Bowles Blues Brothers Tour Going Who Knows Where

    One chilly afternoon last December, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson slipped out of a car and into the studio on New York’s West Side where Jon Stewart tapes “The Daily Show.”

  • F-35 Parts From Rolls-Royce 160 Days Late, Pentagon Says

    Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc was an average of 160 days late last year in delivering equipment needed for the U.S. Marine Corps version of the F-35 fighter to hover and land like a helicopter, according to the Pentagon.

  • Simpson-Bowles 2.0 Trades Credibility for Influence

    For years, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson pulled off a very unusual and very difficult trick: They managed to position themselves firmly in the political center even as their budget proposal was far beyond the boundaries of what either party was proposing.

  • Obama’s Deficit Commission Leaders Offer New Debt Plan

    The leaders of President Barack Obama’s 2010 deficit commission offered a $2.4 trillion plan to reduce the debt as Congress approaches a March 1 deadline for averting across-the-board federal spending cuts.

  • Bowles-Simpson’s Less-Grand Bargain

    Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the indefatigable odd couple of U.S. fiscal policy, are at it again, offering their third deficit-cutting plan in four years. You’ve got to admire their effort, if not their success rate.

  • Simpson Says ‘Terrified’ Obama Walked Away From Deficit Issue

    President Barack Obama “walked away” from his bipartisan U.S. deficit-cutting commission’s plan “because he knew he’d be torn to bits,” said former Republican Senator Alan Simpson, who was co-chairman of the panel.

  • Simpson Says Medicare to Squeeze Out Government Spending

    Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission, said escalating Medicare costs stand to squeeze out the rest of domestic government spending.

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